(rhymes with “nab”) A noun, primarily denoting a length of unoccupied sock hanging off the front of one\u2019s foot. Wab usually occurs when the sock is overly loose, or when strenuous sockfooted activity has been going on. I might observe \u201cmy, what a lot of wab you have.\u201d Such an observation is often succeeded by failing to resist the temptation to pull on the wab. <\/p>\n
An adjectival version is wabby, meaning “characterized by having wab.” Clearly the meaning of “wab” can be applied to other apparel arrangements; if I have my arm pulled up into my sleeve with the empty end dangling loosely, you could say I have a wabby sleeve.<\/p>\n
This word has been used in my family since the early 1980s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(rhymes with “nab”) A noun, primarily denoting a length of unoccupied sock hanging off the front of one\u2019s foot. Wab usually occurs when the sock is overly loose, or when strenuous sockfooted activity has been going on. I might observe \u201cmy, what a lot of wab you have.\u201d Such an observation is often succeeded by…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> Wab<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-me","post-73","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/75"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}